Space Seeds Arrive

Exciting times this week, as we received a special delivery from astronaut Tim Peake - our "Space seeds"!

We received two batches of rocket lettuce seeds to grow here at Ashcroft - one batch is from the International Space Station, where the seeds have been exposed to zero gravity and some cosmic background radiation, and one batch is from seeds that remained on Earth. We have started growing these seeds and will be comparing how being in Space affects seeds in general.